Bazzite counts as a Steam Deck when you’re playing in Steam mode, Linux when in desktop mode.

A “fediverse” version of Youtube already got made and subsequently killed, PopcornTime.

The Bittorrent backbone already has plenty of media and can handle more bandwidth than we’d ever need to throw at it. Encrypted Onion Routing provides a degree of insurance against copyright cops, too. The only problems left to solve are automating the discovery of user-relevant content and avoiding the legal system long enough to write and popularize an open source app that puts it all together with a couch-friendly front-end.

The term is Gerontocracy:

Yeah, Paramagnetism.

Beats the hell out of me. I’ve got no clue how I manage to get anything done at all, my focus just slides right off work.

It sure doesn’t seem to be working because it’s still costing more and more all the time. So they’re printing it faster than they’re taking it away.

Precisely.

The government can either fix this by raising taxes or by reducing the rate at which it allows the banking industry to print money, and neither option is politically viable for obvious reasons.

But that’s not surprising since the government doesn’t tax itself.

This comment leads me to believe that you have some fundamental misapprehension as to how money and/or governments work.

Governments create money so they can pay people to do things. If a government tried to tax its own payments then it’d just be paying itself with dollars that never had a chance to circulate through the economy. Even in concept, this is a waste of time and energy. The only real effect would be artificially inflated numbers for government expenses and tax receipts, the total amount of economic activity enabled by those dollars and the total amount of currency removed from circulation would be zero.

The purpose of taxation is to take excess currency out of the economy, and you just can’t do that by moving money from one government office to another.

It was when it was first produced.

The street finding its own uses for outdated military hardware is extremely on-theme for the cyberpunk genre.

This image might better fit the aesthetics of the cyberpunk derivative “Dieselpunk”, but only aesthetically. As a genre of literature, Dieselpunk themes break down into two categories, “Piecraftian Dieselpunk” where culture has ceased to evolve due to the ongoing existential threat of global war and “Ottensian Dieselpunk” that tries to project the utopian visions of the 20’s foward despite or instead of the Great Recession and World War 2. Neither of these themes fit the image, as they’re both retrocausal and can’t envision a world where converting a useless old tank into a fruit stand would make sense. It’d either be recycled in the Piecraftian mode or would never fall out of the military’s hands in the Ottensian.

But the cyberpunk themes are dead-on. The existence of this image implies a person who might as well be a character trope for the genre, a shopkeeper in the margins of a dystopian society where discarded military surplus is cheaper than real estate.

If IT is doing everything right then most of the time there won’t be much for them to do. I’d much rather they spent most of their time waiting for incident tickets than constantly putting out fires.

The concept of money is theft, taxation is how the money-printing thugs keep it from inflating itself out of existence.

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Why would I dye my hair when plumage is an option?

How many of your loved ones have they already murdered?

How many more will have to die before the owners of this country decide that a for-profit healthcare system isn’t worth the threat those profits generate?

The death toll of the health insurance industry currently stands at like 68,000/year. Health, life, and medical insurance companies combined employ about 900,000 people. We could end the insurance industry overnight and the lives saved would outnumber the jobs lost in like 13 years.

“Assassination” is actually more appropriate because the term implies that there are political reasons for the killing and to suggest that our health insurance industry is not politicised would be laughable.

Describing the way someone feels about a health insurance company murdering someone they care about as being “dissatisfied with the way they handle business” is top-tier psycho-brained.

Literal mob mentality. “We killed your spouse/kid but it wasn’t personal, it’s just business.”

“Someone will always be upset about something” People died, Karen. Don’t try and paper over the harm caused by the insurance industry as merely “upsetting”. Rudeness is upsetting, we’re talking about murder.

America has never had free and fair elections. And even if we wanted to change that, voter manipulation via mass and social medias and a wildly divergent educational system have destroyed the foundation of reality-based truth which is required for masses of individuals to make informed decisions and vote accordingly.

The fact of the matter is that it makes no difference if the election was “stolen” or not. What matters is how people feel, and this country literally wrote the book on propaganda and public relations. What people feel about things can be changed as easily as the script for a news report. It took less than 20 years to rehabituate the reputations of war criminals like Bush and Cheyney, and the Democrats are still seen as a left-wing party despite having moved so far to the right that they make Reagan look like a hippy.

We’ll see “real AI” in our lifetimes, but from the other direction: Simulating scanned human brains.

I’m disappointed that nobody’s mentioned Pony Island yet.

90% of folks can’t be trained to kill.

Half of the remainder would rather frag their own commanding officers than some poor foreign kid.

You seem to be assuming that they didn’t vote for no apparent reason.